Aromatherapy Recipes: Simple Aromatherapy Blends and Essential Oils for Beginners. Massage Oils for Wellness, Beauty and Relaxation (Aromatherapy & Essential Oils) Paperback – Large Print, April 29, 2014

Love this book because:First, Marta relates choosing different schools of aromatherapy to find your own way of living in life. There are so many choices out there in this world. It is hard to find the "only" Bible in life, since different people view things differently through their perspectives. Love this concept!Then, I really really love that this book focuses on different situations where you can apply aromatherapy. And I can personally relate to those situations and easily apply simple steps as given.And seriously, because of this book I love aromatherapy more;)Great stuff. Highly recommended.

I always been wanting to take a short term course in school to learn about Aromatherapy but now I don't have to, when I started to read few books on kindle ; Marta's book about Aromatherapy Recipes got my full attention, the way she explains the details and recipes are easy to follow because she is the real deal. She is doing it and she is the expert. Personally, I always get a regular massage anywhere I travel and I am addicted to it. Now, I don't have to go to school to understand Aromatherapy because I bought this book and I can follow Marta's recipe and create my own Aroma/Oil for massage especially for headaches. I am glad that I found this book.I will recommend this amazing book to anyone.

Her reasons given for writing this book include saving yourself money over going to a spa, giving natural ways to de-stress, and taking care of yourself; she calls it wellness on a budget. She describes the British and the French schools of aromatherapy and how she combines them. (This was new to me, and I've been using essential oils for several years.) She gives pictures and how she sets up, which I found too amateurish and more like a personal opinion. The introduction does go on and on like a blog.She describes that she uses in practice an intuitive approach which involves "just following your personal preference". Aroma intuition is that "we are often attracted to essential oils ... that can help alleviate a given condition." I really like this approach to creating custom oil blends. I just wish she went a step further and described how you use this approach to make recipe substitutions.The 30 recipes are half of the book. This is the strength of this book. I'm not going describe them. For each blend, she gives a name, description, ingredients, directions, and uses. These are a bit wordy but are a consistent style. Some of her recipes use common essential oils and some not; maybe this is a difference between Europe and America though. She does precede the recipes with a list of safety precautions.The appendix contains a boring dry list of oil properties. It's an appendix after all.

To be honest when I thought about aromatherapy I thought that it had to do with candles and sweet smelling oils. Boy was I so wrong. A friend of mine recommended this book to me as I shared my concerns to her that I have lost the tone in my legs and she recommended aromatherapy.I have learned a lot from this book, it has taken my understanding of oils to another level. I appreciate that the author has taken the time to write about herself and let her readers know that she knows what she is writing about. I was amazed to learn that aromatherapy can be used to ease headaches, dandruff and so many other issues.

Marta really knows her stuff! If you want to learn about aromatherapy it's best to find a practitioner who can teach you how to mix everything up in the right way and how to use it correctly. There are so many formulas in this book it's crazy! Make sure you stock up on your essential oils because you're going to want to try some of these! I thought the pictures in the book were a nice touch...gives the reader a little glimpse into the arsenal of holistic practitioner. Inspiring to say the least!

I'm new on especial oils, this book is:Easy to readKeep you informAnd give you more hints in you want to keep readingBut I would it love if she gives names of companies where she buys her oils or a list of good companies . It's hard and overwhelming to trust if you're a beginner like me.

Not for diffuser though. That was what I was looking for. These are recipes for massage oils and more. Great information about essential oils.

Now saged to learn that aromatherapy will not hurt my masculine attributes, I tried some experiments in this field, using this book, the last time I suffered a bad headache. And, indeed, my headache seemed to evaporate, was it a careful placebo effect, or is aromatherapy a mysterious holistic technique? I'll let you be the judge, but the book is worth your time if you plan to investigate.